To give you some idea of what we do, here are the programmes for some past years.
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Paperwork | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Form | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Myths | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Age and ageing | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Sport | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Plants | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Envy | |
| September | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Harvest | |
| October | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: The Machine | |
| November | Annual General Meeting |
| With perhaps time for some poetry afterwards |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Urban Poetry | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Eccentrics | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Protest in Poetry | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Pets | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Nonsense | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: A poem that is significant or made a difference to you | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Peace | |
| September | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Fashion | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| With perhaps time for some poetry afterwards | |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Lost Things |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Trees | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Matters Rural | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Wind | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Place | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Place (continued) | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Sonnets | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Lucky dip | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| With perhaps time for some poetry afterwards | |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Food and drink |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Winter | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Crime and Punishment | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Sound | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Peace | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Families | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Memories | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Holidays | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| With perhaps time for some poetry afterwards | |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Trains |
| January | Cancelled |
| (Due to government restrictions) | |
| February | Cancelled |
| (Due to government restrictions) | |
| March | Cancelled |
| (Due to government restrictions) | |
| April | Cancelled |
| (Due to government restrictions) | |
| May | AGM (Postponed from last October) |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Parody | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Comic verse | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| With perhaps time for some poetry afterwards | |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Insanity |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Roads and Paths | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Poems of childhood | |
| March | Cancelled |
| (due to the pandemic shutdown) | |
| April | Cancelled |
| (due to the pandemic shutdown) | |
| May | Cancelled |
| (due to the pandemic shutdown) | |
| June | Cancelled |
| (due to the pandemic shutdown) | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional subject: Exile | |
| October | AGM postponed |
| (Due to re-imposed restrictions) | |
| November | AGM postponed |
| (As lockdown 2 was still in force) |
| January | Brian Burden |
| The poetry of Vernon Scannell | |
| February | David Gallifant |
| The poetry of Anne Hudson | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: departures and arrivals | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Light verse | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Justice | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Cats and dogs | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Woods and woodland | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Transport |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Poets in translation | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Awakening | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Louis McNiece, WH Auden, C Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender (and possibly Roy Campbell) | |
| April | Meeting cancelled |
| May | Meeting cancelled |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Poems inspired by paintings | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Illustrated books of poetry | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | David Gallifant |
| The poems of Milton |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Childhood | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: "illegal, immoral or fattening" | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Sonnets | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Sonnets (continued) | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Trees and wood | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Elizabethan Poetry | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Irish poets | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Poets in translation. |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: East Anglia | |
| February | Prose Café |
| Optional theme: Water | |
| Wed Mar 23 | Evening Poetry event with the Stebbing Ladies Group in the White Hart Pub. |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Renewal | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Alexander Pope | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: John Dryden | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: War | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Summertime | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Men and Women |
| January | Prose Café |
| Optional theme: A descriptive passage of prose | |
| February | Prose Café |
| Optional theme: A descriptive passage of prose | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: The Metaphysical Poets | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: The Metaphysical Poets (part two) | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: 19th century American poets | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: 19th century American poets (part two) | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: London |
| January | David Gallifant (and members) |
| John Clare | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Rhythm | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Journey | |
| April | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Renewal | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Work | |
| June | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Summer | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Poetry of the First War | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Prose Café |
| Optional theme: Descriptive prose passages |
| January | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Animals | |
| February | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Weather | |
| March | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Places | |
| April | Open Poetry Café |
| Public welcome — whether participants or not! | |
| May | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Plants | |
| June | Ronald Blythe |
| Poets of the Second World War | |
| July | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Death & bereavement | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Poetry Café |
| Optional theme: Supernatural |
| January | Member's meeting |
| Bring a poem from childhood | |
| February | Ian Griffiths |
| A Return Journey | |
| March | Marc Grimston |
| The ups and downs of a childrens' author | |
| April | Fran McMahon |
| Reads her own poems | |
| May | Catherine Dell |
| Magic, modernity & martyrdom:
an introduction to the life of Federico García Lorca | |
| June | Sue Sincock (Dickens Fellowship) |
| Dickens in the City of London | |
| July | Duncan Breckels |
| Working meeting (Ballads) | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | David Gallifant |
| Jack Lindsay, poet, critic and biographer |
| January | Discussion |
| February | Duncan Breckels |
| Working meeting | |
| March | Martin Figura and Helen Ivory |
| Read their own poems | |
| April | Andrea Porter |
| Talks about her latest work | |
| May | Ian Wilkes |
| Talking Heads | |
| June | Alison Chisholm |
| Wordsworth, the Dove Cottage years | |
| September | Member's meeting |
| Bring a favourite poem | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Brian Burden |
| The Stories of H G Wells |
| January | Brian Burden |
| Walt Whitman | |
| February | Judith Palmer (Director of the Poetry Society) |
| About the Poetry Society (An open meeting) | |
| March | Pauline Stainer |
| Reads her own poems | |
| April | Working meeting (theme of Autumn/Winter) |
| May | Michael Kingdom |
| John Betjeman | |
| June | Leonee Ormond (Tennyson Society) |
| Tennyson and Landscape | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by the Manningtree Stanza | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by preparation for literary evening | |
| November | Evening meeting for the Stebbing Ladies Group |
| January | Mervyn Linford |
| Reads his own poems | |
| February | Christine & Brian Burden |
| Edward Thomas | |
| March | Ronald Blythe |
| On being a writer | |
| April | Breaking free: Poems from Manningtree Stanza |
| May | Derek Adams |
| Catullus | |
| June | David Shacklock |
| Sabine Baring-Gould | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Adrian Green | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by a report on the John Clare Society | |
| November | Anne Hudson and David Gallifant |
| George Meredith |
| January | Peter Hyland |
| The life of Robert Burns | |
| February | Working meeting |
| Bring something you have written for the group to discuss | |
| March | Jo Burch |
| "Insufferable twaddle and mawkish absurdity"
— Letitia Landon and the Literary Annuals | |
| April | David Gallifant |
| Milton interpreted by Blake | |
| May | Estill Pollock |
| Reads his own poems | |
| June | Christine Rigden and CS Rowland |
| Read their own poems | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Derek Adams | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| November | Alan Byford |
| The life of Edmund Blunden |
| January | Members' meeting |
| bring favourite poems on the subject of "winter" | |
| February | Michael Mann |
| Spanish ballads | |
| March | Peter Hyland |
| Poetry of war | |
| April | Seona Ford |
| Dorothy L Sayers: her life in poetry | |
| May | Working meeting |
| Poem inspired by a picture | |
| June | Anne Hudson & David Gallifant |
| Anne Stevenson | |
| September | Poetry Competition in conjunction with the Saffron Walden Literary Festival 2007 |
| Adjudication by Martin Newell | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by Members' Favourite Poems | |
| November | Ted Evans |
| Arthur Ransome's life and loves |
| January | Peter Moyse |
| In the footsteps of John Clare | |
| February | Anne Berkeley |
| Reading her own poems | |
| March | Anne Hudson |
| The British poet Kathleen Raine | |
| April | Duncan Breckels |
| Poetry Jukebox | |
| May | David Gallifant |
| Thomas Moore and the art of writing | |
| June | Roger Johnson |
| "Look to the Lady": the life and crime fiction
of Margery Allingham | |
| September | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by working meeting (Compose a Haiku) | |
| October | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Stainer | |
| November | The Lord Philips of Sudbury |
| Early Nineteenth century Suffolk poets |
| January | Keith Chandler |
| Reads his own poems | |
| February | David Gallifant |
| Catching up with John Clare | |
| March | Ian Wilkes (of Ian Henry Publications) |
| Sherlock Holmes in Frankfurt | |
| April | Jan Williams |
| Essex Story Tellers | |
| May | Michael Laskey & Joanna Cutts of Smith's Knoll magazine |
| Invite us to share in an editorial meeting | |
| June | "Joinedupwriting" (Christine Rigden and Huw Evans) |
| Present their own poems | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Ronald Blythe | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading favourite poems | |
| November | Duncan Breckels |
| Working meeting |
| January | Anne Berkeley |
| Reading her own poems | |
| February | The Untapped Writers |
| present their own work | |
| March | Ronald Blythe |
| George Crabbe | |
| April | Favourite poems |
| May | Nicholas Nottage |
| Henry Howard | |
| June | Duncan Breckels |
| The works of John Redwood Anderson | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Joe Barnett | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading favourite poems | |
| November | Working meeting |
| Write on a subject picked at random during the meeting |
| January | David Gallifant |
| Walking with writers | |
| February | Members meeting |
| Favourite poems | |
| March | Christine Rigden |
| Reads her own poems | |
| April | Anne Hudson and David Gallifant |
| Christina Rosetti | |
| May | John Fitch |
| The "Bab" ballads of W S Gilbert | |
| June | Peter Moyse |
| Illustrated talk on behalf of the John Clare Society | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Keith Chandler | |
| October | Annual General Meeting (inconclusive) |
| November | AGM adjourned from October |
| January | Ronald Blythe |
| Writing a rural Journal: Word from Wormingford | |
| February | Keith Chandler |
| Reading his own poems | |
| March | Duncan Breckels |
| Prose working meeting | |
| April | Sally Carr |
| Reading her own poems | |
| May | Dr Joe Allard |
| Aspects of Modern Poetry—
getting published in little magazines | |
| June | John Fitch |
| The poetry of R N Curry | |
| September | Poetry Competition (Held at Stebbing) |
| Adjudication by Joe Barnett | |
| October | Cancelled: bad weather |
| December | Annual general Meeting |
| January | Ronald Blythe |
| Thomas Traherne | |
| February | Pauline Stainer |
| Early Influences | |
| March | Anne Hudson |
| Working meeting: Ballads | |
| April | Three Essex Poets |
| reading their own poems | |
| May | John Fitch |
| Poets as Hymn writers | |
| June | Working meeting: |
| 500 words of prose | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Stainer | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Meeting deferred to November 4 due to bad weather | |
| November | Robin Hanford |
| Joseph Brodski |
| January | Pauline Stainer |
| Reads from her new collection | |
| February | Dr Rosemary Morris |
| The work of D.J. Enright | |
| March | Michael Mann |
| Working meeting | |
| April | Julia Hanford |
| Trees in poetry | |
| May | Alison Chisholm |
| Reads her poems | |
| June | Moira Moles, Anne Hudson, Jenny Brimley |
| Read their poems | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Dr Rosemary Williams | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members read favourite poems | |
| November | Lord Phillips of Sudbury |
| Poetry and Poets in relation to the Civil War |
| January | Dr Rosemary Morris |
| The Work of Charles Causley | |
| February | Canon John Fitch |
| The Art of Parody | |
| March | Dr Robin Hanford |
| The Poetry and Drama of Derek Walcott | |
| April | Sally Carr |
| Reading her own poems | |
| May | Diana & Michael Mann |
| Poetry Reading | |
| June | Ann Berkeley |
| Reading her own poems | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Joe Barnett | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by | |
| November | Julia Thorogood |
| The Poetry of Andrew Motion |
| January | Michael Mann |
| Two different poets: Charlotte Mew and Patrick Chalmers | |
| February | Moira Moles |
| Poems remembered from Childhood | |
| March | James Nash |
| Middle Eastern Medley | |
| April | Pauline Stainer |
| Reading her own poems | |
| May | Robin Hanford |
| The Shield of Achilles | |
| June | David Gallifant |
| Working meeting: Travel | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Anne Berkeley | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by reading by runners up of the competition | |
| November | Ronald Blythe |
| Poets of both wars, 1914 & 1939 |
| January | Diana Mann |
| Working meeting | |
| February | Canon Fitch |
| Two Essex Contemporaries, John Ray and John Locke | |
| March | Lee Spencer Young |
| What is great about Shakespeare? Some aspects of the immortal poetry | |
| April | Ronald Blythe |
| Talking about Thomas Hardy | |
| May | Barney Bambridge |
| Emily Dickinson, Tact and Friction | |
| June | Robert Holles |
| Aspects of the writing game | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Frank Dullaghan | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by runners up of the competition | |
| November | Anne Berkeley |
| Reading her own poems |
| January | Michael Mann |
| "Two Spanish Poets" (with slides) | |
| February | Frank Dullaghan |
| reading his own poems | |
| March | Moira Moles |
| "Poetry and Prose Through the Seasons" | |
| April | Diana Mann |
| working meeting | |
| May | Julia Hanford |
| Ivor Gurney. His Poetry and Music | |
| June | Margaret Podgorska |
| The Sparkling Journals of Fanny Burney | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Barney Bambridge | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by reading by the runners up of the 1995 competition | |
| November | David Gallifant |
| Henry Crabb Robinson |
| January | Runners-up of the 1994 Poetry Competition |
| read their poems | |
| February | Moira Moles |
| Light verse workshop | |
| March | Nigella Ayles |
| "Two Victorian Voices" | |
| April | Sally Carr |
| Reading her own poetry | |
| May | Margaret Podgorska |
| on "The Irish Poet and Singer Thomas Moore" with music | |
| June | Pauline Stainer |
| reading from "The Ice-Pilot Speaks" | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Stainer | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by reading by runners-up of the 1995 competition | |
| November | Sylvia Horder |
| on " Stories and Poems of the Sea" with music |
| January | Pauline Stainer |
| Frances Horovitz | |
| February | |
| Working Meeting | |
| March | Donald Atkinson |
| reading his own poetry | |
| April | |
| Working Meeting | |
| May | Martin Homer |
| Baudelaire | |
| June | Ronald Blythe |
| John Clare | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Stainer | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by Robin Handford on Carribean Poetry | |
| November | Michal Mann |
| "Two Spanish Poets" a talk with slides |
| January | Carol Humphrey |
| A reading | |
| February | Diana Mann |
| "Researching a Poem" Working Meeting | |
| March | Dr Alan Chesterfield |
| Reading his own poems | |
| April | Robin Hanford |
| Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters | |
| May | Pauline Stainer |
| Frances Horovitz | |
| June | Margaret Podgorska |
| "Literary Haunts in Regency London" | |
| September | Annual General Meeting |
| and adjudication of poetry competition | |
| October | |
| Milton: a reading given by members of the society | |
| November | David Gallifant & Anne Hudson |
| Robert Browning |
| January | Duncan Beresford-Jones |
| Russian Poetry | |
| February | Anne Hudson |
| Working meeting | |
| March | Diana Mann |
| reading her own poetry | |
| April | Martin Horner |
| George Eliot | |
| May | Pauline Spender |
| reading poems about "The Family" | |
| June | Margaret Podgorska |
| "A Venetian Anthology" Some famous literary connections | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Michael Craven | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their favourite poems | |
| November | Andrew Adair |
| Working meeting |
| January | Peter McDonald |
| Modern Irish Poetry | |
| February | Diana Mann |
| working meeting | |
| March | Pauline Stainer |
| "David Jones, poet & painter" | |
| April | Alison Chisolm |
| reading her own poetry | |
| May | Jill Balcon |
| Poetry reading | |
| June | Margaret Podgorska |
| "The Indomitable Pilgrim" a study of Charlotte Bronte | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Isabel Thrilling | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by | |
| November | Michael Mann |
| Working meeting |
| January | Robin Hanford |
| Working meeting | |
| February | Duncan Beresford-Jones |
| "The Gates of Sleep" | |
| March | Michael Mann |
| Molière | |
| April | Sally Carr |
| Reads her own poetry | |
| May | Pauline Spender |
| "Some Women Poets", a reading | |
| June | Pauline Stainer |
| Working meeting | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Michael Craven | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their favourite poems | |
| November | Peter Hardiman Scott |
| reads his own poems |
| January | Robin Hanford |
| Working Meeting | |
| February | Isobel Thrilling |
| reads her own poetry | |
| March | Pauline Stainer |
| Working meeting | |
| April | Margaret Podgorska |
| "A Gallant Spirit and a Kind One" a talk on Byron | |
| May | Jill Balcon |
| Poetry reading | |
| June | Dr AFJ Brown |
| The Origins of Prose Literature | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Robert Cecil | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their favourite poems | |
| November | Dr RJ Gay |
| American Poets |
| January | David Bell |
| The narrative style of Ernest Hemingway short stories | |
| February | Ronald Blythe |
| George Crabbe and the poetry of Suffolk | |
| March | John Rowe |
| Modern Poets | |
| April | Michael Mann |
| The Plays of Racine | |
| May | Julia Thorogood |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Man and the Poet | |
| June | Mr Coleridge |
| Emily Dickinson "The Spreading wide my narrow hands to gather paradise" | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Dr RJ Gray | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their favourite poems | |
| November | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| The Poetry of East Anglia |
| January | Chaired by RD Beresford Jones |
| Discussion on "What poetry means to me" | |
| February | Diana Mann |
| Katherine Mansfield | |
| March | RD Beresford Jones |
| Redwood Anderson | |
| April | Julia Thorogood |
| Marjorie Allingham: "The Oaken Heart" | |
| May | Robin Hanford |
| Keats: Transcience and the Odes | |
| June | Pauline Spender |
| Thomas Hardy: "Time Torn Man" | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Dr Gray | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own or favourite poems | |
| November | Julia Hanford |
| The Poetry of Christmas |
| January | Dr O H Robertson |
| Poems from Rhodesia | |
| February | Discussion |
| Chaired by R D Beresford Jones | |
| March | Jack Lindsay |
| Early poetry of William Morris and Karl Marx | |
| April | Richard Cooper |
| Island Stories | |
| May | Pauline Stainer |
| reads her own poems | |
| June | Joan Davis |
| a talk on Philip Larkin | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by ? | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own or favourite poems | |
| November | Michael Craven |
| John Donne. Some Poems. |
| January | R D Beresford Jones |
| The Poetry of Nekrassov | |
| February | J R M Tambling |
| An introduction to Dante | |
| March | Dr Roger Moss |
| "Is all poetry only rhetoric?" | |
| April | James Gillick |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
| May | Joan Davis |
| The Comic Muse | |
| June | Robin Hanford |
| A Talk on Hardy | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by [either Ronald Blythe or Nicholas Hinde] | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own or favourite poems | |
| November | Julia Hanford |
| John Clare |
| January | Jack Lindsay |
| Blok and the Russian Symbolist Poets | |
| February | J C Allard |
| A Talk on Modern Poetry | |
| March | Pam Croome |
| Journey of the Years | |
| April | Julia Hanford |
| The Poetry of John Clare | |
| May | Canon J D Allen |
| The Brontes | |
| June | Joan Davis |
| The Myth in Literature | |
| July | Hosts at a joint meeting |
| with the Suffolk Poetry Society | |
| (At The Bell Theatre, Castle Hedingham) | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Spender | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by discussion on "Regular Metre or Free Verse?" | |
| Chaired by RD Beresford Jones | |
| November | Marguerite Wood |
| Rhythms of Poetry |
| January | Joan Davis |
| The Poetry of Seamus Heaney | |
| February | Discussion meeting: |
| Society's Anthology | |
| March | R D Beresford Jones |
| The Coming of Rhyme in Europe | |
| April | Robin Hanford |
| The Poetry of TS Eliot | |
| May | Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch & Jack Lindsay |
| For the Record | |
| June | Canon JD Allen |
| Clerical Diarists | |
| July | t.b.a. |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Pauline Spender | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own poems | |
| November | Nicholas Hinde |
| French Epic Poetry |
| January | Diana Mann |
| The Seasons in Poetry | |
| February | Robin Hanford |
| Chinese and Japanese Verse | |
| March | R D Beresford Jones |
| The Four Ages of Poetry | |
| April | Members introduce their own favourites |
| May | Elaine Baly |
| Robert Browning | |
| June | Discussion Meeting |
| July | Julia Hanford |
| Joint meeting with the Suffolk Poetry Society: Music and Poetry | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by ? | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own poems | |
| November | Jack Lindsay |
| Catullus and the Roman Poets |
| January | R D Beresford Jones |
| Shakespeare. A peep behind the scenes | |
| February | Diana Mann |
| Edward Thomas: life and letters | |
| March | Patrick Anderson |
| An introduction to John Donne | |
| April | Enthusiasms |
| Members introduce their own favourites | |
| May | Jack Lindsay |
| Edgell Rickword at eighty | |
| June | Discussion meeting |
| July | Hosts at a joint meeting |
| with the Suffolk Poetry Society | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by Jack Lindsay and S Cutress | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own poems | |
| November | A T Vanes |
| Shakespeare Sonnets |
| January | Diana Mann |
| Dorothy Osborne and her Letters | |
| February | Gwen Francon Davies |
| Reads poems of her own choice. | |
| March | Jack Lindsay |
| Some aspects of the Poetry of William Blake | |
| April | Anne Hudson |
| Poems about Art | |
| May | Discussion or debate |
| subject to be decided | |
| June | David Britton |
| Poetry, Public or Private? | |
| September | Poetry Competition and Prose Competition |
| Adjudication by E N Curry | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members reading their own poems | |
| November | Paper or Discussion |
| The Sonnet, or a neglected poet |
| January | Mr S.G. Cutress |
| Children's Reading, then and Now, 18th–18th Centuries | |
| February | Mr L.F. Ritson |
| The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayam | |
| March | Mr A.T. Vanes |
| Browing's "The Ring & The Book" | |
| April | Mrs I.F. Haddakin |
| The Poet John Keats (1795–1821) | |
| May | Pauline Spender |
| Simplicity in Poetry | |
| June | Patrick Anderson |
| will discuss Modern Poetry and give some readings from his own work. | |
| July | General Discussion |
| any aspect of poetry | |
| September | Poetry Competition |
| Adjudication by E N Curry | |
| October | Annual General Meeting |
| Followed by members read their own or favourite poems | |
| November | Mr R.D Beresford-Jones |
| The Basis of Poetry |
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